~ Always Wear Your Crown

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Happy Mothers Day to all mommas out there. Moms, step-moms, single mom’s ,foster moms, moms in faith, grandmas, aunts being moms, adoptive moms, tummy mummy, dad’s who have to be mom also, grandparents being moms, dog-moms, teachers who sometimes have to play mom. Anyone out there who steps in and sacrifices some of themselves for the sake of a child or children this day is for you.

In case you have no one else to tell you- you are amazing, the work you are doing is valued, and you are loved.

I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:3‭-‬6 HCSBhttps://bible.com/bible/72/php.1.3-6.HCSB

I am thankful for my mom who has loved me as if I came from her own body my whole life not matter what. For my bio-mom who made the greatest choice and sacrifice a mother ever could. For my mother in law who raised an absolutely amazing young man that I get to be married to. For my darling S.S. mother who despite being a little odd, is always very kind and makes this co-parenting thing easy . For my momma in faith who always checks in and keeps up with me. For my sister’s, SIL, and friends who all step in and take on different mothering roles to my boys. They may drive us crazy but I think we might be raising to AOK kids 🙂

Yesterday wasn’t a good day. Everyone in our family had attitude and we were rude with each other . It’s was just a crappy day. Finally I just looked at the boys and said. You know that even though we having been yelling at you all most of they day and argeuing with each other that we still love you both and each other very very very much right?

How wonderful that we have the same promise from our heavenly father? No matter how bad the day we can rejoice in his love and the hope we find in him.

Did y’all ever read this book? It’s one of my FAVORITE and when #BabyLogan joined a book club and was sent this book, i was ecstatic! We love it and he can basically quote the whole thing.

But this Wednesday was my own #THNGVBDay . Work was beyond awful. I cried like…….3 times. I got in a fight with a resident. I couldn’t do my job because of software and technical glitches . I had zero support (okay not zero but minimal and not enough) from my company.

And then Man got in a car wreck. A bad one. He’s ok and the car will either be fixed or we will get insurance money and figure out a replacement, either way it will be fine. But he did have to go to the ER which is scary and annoying. And he is set to have surgery Monday so we had the stress of whether this would effect that.

For this week’s Lent Devotional we are focusing on Jesus as the living water so we are giving up beverages of some kind.

For me that means coffee and my lunch time baby can of diet coke. The diet coke isn’t a huge deal as for years I have up pop, but the coffee……..thats a big one.

I love coffee. I generally have two-sometimes 3 cups in the morning and then take some iced coffee to work with me. So this will be a sacrafice. I enjoy that though when my lent offerings are actually hard, when they aren’t its like what is the point?

I’ll need to have a cup of tea in the mornings, just to starve off the caffeine headache-anyone got any Flavor recommendations?!?!?!

I dont know if i was fully given a new heart this past week with my Lenten sacrifices, but I definitly saw a change in my morning quiet time. Thank you O God for helping us with the messiest parts of our selves!

“‘For here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to take you out of these countries, gather you from all over, and bring you back to your own land. I’ll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean. I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed. I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands. You’ll once again live in the land I gave your ancestors. You’ll be my people! I’ll be your God!
Ezekiel 36:24‭-‬28 MSGhttps://bible.com/bible/97/ezk.36.24-28.MSG